Records relating to J Lyons and Company Limited, food manufacturers and caterers, comprising copy of publication "The Lyons lithographs" by Richard Russell, 2000.
Sans titreThis collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Rules of the West Somerset and Devon Manufacturing Company Superannuation Fund and Life Assurance Scheme' (1950's); 'Staff Assurance Scheme English Sewing Cotton Company Limited' (1962); 'Pasolds Limited and Subsidiary Companies Retirement Benefits Plan Revised Scheme B' (1969); 'Pasolds Limited and Subsidiary Companies Retirement Benefits Plan Revised Scheme A' (1970); 'Coats Patons Superannuation Fund' (1978) and 'Your Guide Through The Coats Pension Plan' (2007).
Sans titreThe collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Central Electricity Authority and Area Boards (Manual Workers) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy]; 'Electricity Supply (Staff) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy] and 'Electricity Supply Pension Scheme Northern Electric Group Members Guide (2005).
Sans titreThis collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Trust Deed and Rules relating to The Molins Pension Fund' (1936) [facsimile]; 'The Molins Pension Fund' (1962) [facsimile] and 'Explaining your benefits for the future' (2007).
Sans titreExplanatory booklet regarding the 'Friends Provident Pension Scheme', 2000.
Sans titreRecords of the National Association of Pension Funds Ltd, 1917-2009, comprising minutes, agendas, reports and correspondence from various committees; secretary's files; documents concerning membership; publicity and outreach material, including conference publications, yearbooks and published reports and surveys; and audio-visual material, including photographs and promotional videos.
Sans titreRecords of the 'Good View Restaurant' Chinese take-away, comprising weekly acounts and supply re-ordering sheets, dating to the 1980s and 1990s.
Sans titreClippings of obituaries for Mr Alastair Ross Goobey, pensions fund manager, from various national newspapers, and photographs of Goobey and other attendees at the inaugural Ross Goobey lecture at The Cass Business School.
Sans titreRecords of the Pensions Management Insitute Limited, 1977-2010, including corporate, administrative, member services records and photographs. Corporate records including: minutes, circulated papers and correspondence of Council; copies of memorandum and articles of association; annual general meeting minutes and papers; papers of the External Affairs, Strategy and various sub committees; president's correspondence files; and a paper on the Institute's history.
Administrative papers including: papers of the ad-hoc steering group, money purchase working party, model administration steering group and occupational pensions seminar group and the Secretary General's correspondence files.
Digital records relating to member services, which include: conference, seminar and annual dinner publicity and attendance lists; guidance notes, codes of practice and handbooks relating to PMI qualifications; publicity materials; PMI News; and PMI Technical News.
The collection also includes a photographic archive of PMI events, speakers at conferences and prize winners, and the memorandum and articles of association and circulated papers for PMI Services Limited.
Sans titreRecords of Noble Lowndes and Partners Ltd including Paul R Dawson's records on Noble Lowndes and Company Limited. Pension Technical Information Service instruction bulletins (1989-1992). Copy article on Noble Frank Lowndes by Hugh Woolhouse from 'Dictionary of Business Biography'. 'Pension Fund Investment' volume edited by A G Shepherd and accompanying correspondence to Paul Dawson from Anthea Nugent.
Sans titrePapers of Alan Herbert, pensions manager, comprising entries to the Pensions Management Awards 2000 and the Professional Pensions Awards 2007, which typically include a submission paper for the award as well as a variety of communication material produced by the pension scheme for its members, press clippings about the scheme and papers on the administration of the scheme. The collection also contains a discussion paper for the Trustee Code of Conduct Group.
Sans titrePapers of the Chamber of Ships Insurance relating to the appointment of a French agent to the Chamber.
Sans titreMinute books of the No 1 Cornhill Club, a professional association for insurers.
Sans titrePapers of the North Thames Gas Board, comprising records of predecessor companies, including the Brentford Gas Light Company, the Gas Light and Coke Company, Harrow and District Gas Company, the Harrow and Stanmore Gas Company, North Middlesex Gas Company, Pinner Gas Company, Uxbridge Old Gas Company, the Hornsey Gas Company Limited, and Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited, 1708-1947. Records include assignments of interest, leases, releases, fines, copies of wills, mortgages, papers relating to bankruptcy, conveyances, depositions, agreements, deeds, marriage settlements, testimony, bonds, quit rents, correspondence, abstracts of title, Chancery proceedings, sale particulars, licences, engineers reports, Parliamentary Bills and financial accounts for properties, businesses and persons in Acton, Brentford, Ealing, Chiswick, Greenford, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, Hornsey, Isleworth, Northwood, Pinner, Southall, Tottenham, Twickenham and Uxbridge. Also memorandum and articles of association for the Hornsey Gas Company, description of the Hornsey Gas Works, and regulations of the Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited.
Papers of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, 1834-1924, including prospectus; certificates of registration; deed of settlement; list of shareholders; copy of Uxbridge Gas Act; correspondence; petition; handbills and posters; circular letters; notices; bonds; contracts; plan of the houses, lands and buildings situated within a radius of 330 yards from the works of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, with book of reference listing owners, lessees and occupiers; schedule of repairs; valuation of machinery and apparatus; list of meters; financial accounts; engineers reports; directors' reports; annual reports; agreement for transfer of Maidenhead Gas Company; report of the directors of Great Marlow Gas Company Limited, with account of intended amalgamation with the Uxbridge, Wycombe and District Gas Company; minute books of the Committee of Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers' Company.
Papers of the North Middlesex Gas Company, 1869-1932, including printed account books and reports of the Company.
Papers of the Gas Light and Coke Company, 1896-1929, including agreement between the Warden and College of All Souls, Oxford and the Gas Light and Coke Company to lay gas main through College lands in Willesden and leases of 38 Oxford Road, Kilburn to the Gas Light and Coke Company.
Sans titreRecords of Legal and General Assurance Society Limited, subsidiaries, and companies which it acquired. The records include minutes, annual reports, registers, financial accounts, specimens of policies and forms, and staff registers. The papers relate to life, accident and fire insurance; investments and pensions.
Sans titreRecords of Legal and General International Limited, comprising annual reports and accounts.
Sans titreRecords of Glanfield Securities Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; minutes; annual reports and accounts; registers; and financial records.
Sans titreRecords of the Victory Insurance Company, comprising annual reports and accounts, a prospectus, and a register of members.
Sans titreRecords of the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society, including minute books; annual accounts; annual reports; correspondence; reports; press cuttings; legal case papers and papers relating to court proceedings; financial records; advertising leaflets; and papers relating to staff pensions and employment matters.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Liverpool Victoria (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sans titreRecords of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society and predecessors the National Life Assurance Society and the Mutual Life Assurance Society. The records include constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, seal books, reports, policy records and other administrative papers.
24 hours notice is required for access to this material. The records are subject to a 30 year rule: the permission of the depositor is required for access to material less than 30 years old (ask a member of staff for further information).
Sans titreMinutes of Birmingham Mutual Fire and General Insurance Association.
Sans titreChurch of England Life and Fire Insurance Trust and Annuity Institution records consist of deeds of settlement, minutes and some financial material.
Sans titreThe Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and Loan and Annuity Company collection primarily comprises minutes, but also includes some constitutional documents, examples of policies and other administrative records.
Sans titreThe Law Fire Insurance Society records consist of constitutional documents, minutes, administrative material including items relating to staff and salaries, reinsurance treaties, annual reports and financial material. Ms 29198 comprises annotated copy minutes and meetings papers of the Accident Offices Association found amongst the Society's records.
Sans titreThe Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company records comprise: deed of settlement and related papers, 1803, 1850-1858; committee minutes and reports, 1803-1922; financial records, 1803-1927; policy records, 1823-1884; "Million Fund" records, 1860-1909; registers of dividends and sureties, ca. 1830-1884; muniments of title, 1710-1913; and correspondence and other papers relating to property, 1821-1908.
Sans titreThe London Assurance Corporation records comprise: corporate and share records, 1719-1955; committee minutes, 1720-1927; administrative records, 1883-1967; investment books 1831-1926; policy records, 1721-1967; risks books, 1832-54; ship charter records, 1720-1853; fire charter records, 1721-1854; financial records, 1721-1958; staff records, 1906-63; property records, 1703-1923; plans, 1747-8, 1882-4; and other miscellaneous records, 1725-1932.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE ASSURANCE MATERIAL IS CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sans titreLondon, Edinburgh and Dublin Life Assurance Company Directors' minute book.
Sans titreThe Monarch Fire and Life Assurance Company records comprise: committee minutes 1835-57; copy deed of settlement, 1836; and deed of arrangement, 1857.
Sans titreYork and London Fire and Life Assurance Company records comprising instruction booklet for agents.
Sans titreConstitutional records of the Sun Insurance Office Limited, including articles of agreement; deeds; registration as a joint stock company; laws and regulations of the company; and papers relating to the take-over of other companies.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sans titreCorrespondence of the Sun Insurance Office Limited, including letter books, correspondence and cable log books of Managers and Secretaries; correspondence with branches in Argentina, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Romania, Denmark, Uruguay, and the USA; correspondence with the Leeds branch; correspondence with the Patriotic Assurance Company, Dublin; and correspondence with the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sans titreRecords of Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to agencies, both UK and abroad; including instructions to agents; lists and registers of agents; scrapbooks and notebooks containing notes, press cuttings and notices about agencies; foreign agency memorandum books; and foreign instructions books for Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australasia, Europe and Russia.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sans titreRecords of Wills, Faber and Dumas Limited comprising sea casualty books, 1916-20 and 1930-50; and a register of claims, 1932-54.
Sans titreMinute book of the Associated Fire Insurers (Government Commodities) Management Committee.
Sans titreGeneral foreign out-letter book of Heckscher and Pearson, commission merchants and underwriters.
Sans titreLetters to C. S. Knight, insurance broker, concerning membership of a syndicate of Lloyd's of London underwriters.
Sans titreDraft deed of settlement establishing the Wellington Reversionary Annuity and Life Assurance Society; with papers relating to the sale of all their assets, policies, and property to the India and London Life Assurance Company.
Sans titreRecords of Anchor Taverns Limited, caterers to public houses, including memorandum and articles of association, with further copies showing amendments and special resolutions.
Sans titreRecords of predecessors of the Association of British Insurers, comprising:
- Accident Offices Association (Overseas);
- Accident Offices Association;
- Aircraft Insurance Committee;
Association of Life Assurance Offices in India; - British Insurance Association;
-British Life Assurance Trust; - Building Society Indemnities Committee;
- Coal Pool;
- Consequential Loss Committee;
- Debris Clearance Pool;
- Engineering Offices Association;
- Fire Offices' Committee;
- Fire Offices Committee (Foreign);
- Fire Offices Committee of Ireland;
- Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association;
- Home Office Vehicles Pool;
- Industrial Life Offices Association;
- Insurance Companies (War Settlement) Committee;
- Life Offices' Association;
- South African Accident Council;
- London Australasian Insurance Committee;
- London Continental Fire Insurance Committee;
- London Fire Engine Establishment;
- London Salvage Corps;
- London South African Insurance Committee;
- London West Africa Insurance Committee;
- London Wharf and Warehouse Committee;
- National Amalgamated Approved Society;
- National Conference of Industrial Assurance Approved Societies;
- Printers and Theatres Rating Committee (Southern Committee);
- Trading with the Enemy Joint Insurance Committee.
PLEASE NOTE: further minutes and files of the British Insurance Association and files of other predecessor bodies, along with minutes and files of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) from 1985-2000, remain uncatalogued. The uncatalogued records are available by prior appointment only quoting accession reference B11/056. In addition access requests to ABI records from 1985-2000 are subject to prior permission from ABI. Please contact staff for further details.
Sans titreMinute book of the Debris Clearance Pool Committee.
Sans titreMinute books of the Engineering Offices Association, an association of engineering insurers.
Sans titreThe records of the Industrial Life Offices Association consist of minute books, annual accounts and files. The minute books appear to form an almost complete set, except for those of the Executive, which end in 1977; and those of the Quarterly Meeting, which end in 1956. From 1920, the minute books are annotated with reference numbers, apparently referring to supporting papers, the whereabouts of which are unknown.
Sans titreMinutes of the Insurance Companies (War Settlement) Committee.
Sans titreRecords of the London Wharf and Warehouse Committee, including minute books; surveyors' reports; and plans of wharfs, warehouses and docks.
Sans titreThe surviving records of the Printers and Theatres Rating Committee (Southern Committee) are incomplete. They mostly concern the rating of individual risks. As a result, they contain much information about particular theatres, music halls, cinemas, film production studios, publishers, printers and allied trades (including papermakers), and associated processes and products. Some of the records are indexed by name and/or place. The whereabouts of the records of the Northern and Scottish Rating Committees is unknown.
Sans titreBoard minutes of the General Accident and Guarantee Company Limited.
The minutes are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of the Indemnity Marine Insurance Company Limited, including consitutional documents, minutes, financial material, letterbooks and some details of ships and cargoes.
Sans titreRecords of the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company, comprising articles of association and minute books only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of the Palatine Insurance Company Limited, comprising Board, annual general meeting and Committee minute books only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of the Planet Assurance Corporation Limited, comprising scrapbooks of printed material and Directors' minutes only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titre